68 Degrees: New York City's Residential Heat and Hot Water Code as an Invisible Energy Policy [0.03%]
68华氏度：纽约市的居住供热和热水规范作为一项无形能源政策
Rebecca Katherine Wright
Rebecca Katherine Wright
For over a century, New York's Residential Heat and Hot Water Code has controlled the distribution of heat in New York City. Established in 1918 by New York's Department of Health, it mandated that all residential and office spaces in the c...
"The First Mountain to Be Removed": Yellow Fever Control and the Construction of the Panama Canal [0.03%]
"首先要移去的大山"——黄热病的防控与巴拿马运河的修建
Paul S Sutter
Paul S Sutter
One of the most important achievements of the US era of canal building in Panama was the successful control of yellow fever, a disease that had plagued the region for centuries and had undone the French canal building effort two decades ear...
Peter Alagona,Jane Carruthers,Hao Chen et al.
Peter Alagona et al.
Duncan Wilson
Duncan Wilson
In 1950, a group of scientists and public figures, based in Hawaii and England, launched a transnational "restoration project" to save the nēnē or Hawaiian goose from extinction. Scrutinizing this project highlights how endangered species...
Chris Otter,Nicholas Breyfogle,John L Brooke et al.
Chris Otter et al.
Kenneth M Sylvester,Eric S A Rupley
Kenneth M Sylvester
This article reconstructs land cover patterns in Depressionera Kansas from historical aerial photos and compares the locations of crop fields to areas of submarginal land identified in modern digital soil survey maps. The analysis argues th...
The smoke of great cities: British and American efforts to control air pollution, 1860-1914 [0.03%]
大城市烟雾：英国和美国控制空气污染的努力（1860—1914）
D Stradling,P Thorsheim
D Stradling